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If you reside in a country where those laws apply, that is.

Meanwhile in Australia, government agencies can obtain your phone and internet ‘metadata’ without a warrant and (ISPs^?) DNS servers are required by law to blacklist certain domains.

^ I assume ISPs because I have no issue with blacklists while using CF/Google DNS.



DNS blocking is a thing in some EU countries too, but maybe not at the same scale.


Yes, in the Netherlands all major ISPs block most Pirate Bay proxies. Hooray for TOR.


You don't need TOR to get around DNS blocks (assuming that's how your ISP is blocking TPB). I configure my router to use Google's public DNS server 8.8.8.8 and that completely circumvents the "block".


To be fair the DNS blacklisting requires court approval, so it does satisfy principles of justice.


Your point is correct and fair based on then way I wrote the comment but it wasn’t my intention to mislead. I need to learn how to ragetype better.

I do think it’s super interesting that the additional gambling site bans happened reasonably quiet last week.

I say reasonably as I play poker, and care if poker is banned, but agree banning gambling is a net positive. Even then I didn’t hear about the ban until 4 days after it happened.




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